Abstract
Abstract A series of 3-[ω-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)alkyl] ethers of estradiol 17-[ω(4-cyanobiphenyl-4′-yloxy)alkanoates] with variable spacers has been prepared as chiral triplet liquid crystals. The compounds show very broad range cholesteric phases and are transformed into cholesteric glasses at room temperature. They exhibit odd-even effects for their cholesteric-isotropic transition temperatures and the associated entropy changes as a function of spacer length. The odd-even effects are observed upon changing the parity of both the ester and of the ether spacer. The best ordering is observed for compounds with an even number of methylene groups both in the ester and the ether spacer. In these cases the three mesogen units are oriented more or less parallel when the alkyl spacers are in the all-trans-conformations. Odd-even effects are also observed for the selective reflection wavelength of the planar cholesteric phase, depending on the parity of both spacers. For several compounds with short spacers ...
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